Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/November 2009

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 1


 * 1) Numbering of Magicicada broods
 * 2) What specific type of foam is this? (Think tool/bike grips)
 * 3) Power vs frequency
 * 4) lightening shock
 * 5) career
 * 6) Inflammatory result of depolarization theory regarding migraines
 * 7) subsequent natural GMO
 * 8) PCR for diagnosis of genital warts
 * 9) chemical induced orgasam
 * 10) Effect of optimism on health
 * 11) How much land is needed to support people?
 * 12) Does phosphorylation occur only with OH / COOH groups?

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 2


 * 1) Hammerhead Sharks
 * 2) h1n1 vaccine
 * 3) Is it possible for energy/ information to travel faster than speed of light in the following case
 * 4) hox and homeotic transformation
 * 5) carbon monoxide
 * 6) What happens if a non-depressed person takes anti-depressants?
 * 7) the form of energy as matter
 * 8) Definition of species
 * 9) Centrifugal force in Earth's orbit
 * 10) Mass spec
 * 11) Banging your fists from a different perspective
 * 12) Can the Yarkovsky effect be used for space propulsion?

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 3


 * 1) Mil vs Micron
 * 2) Best time to buy new houseplants?
 * 3) Elements formed by a hydrogen bomb detonation
 * 4) composite spectral waveform of each element
 * 5) DIY amatuer water quality testing for real nasties like mercury, et al ?
 * 6) aluminum-zinc alloys
 * 7) Information on shoulder/chest area anatomy (Medical Science)
 * 8) melanin benefit vs cancer risk
 * 9) How is heat transfered from one body to another?
 * 10) What species is the mushroom in this photo?
 * 11) Noon in the tropics
 * 12) ptsd
 * 13) Glitch in thermochemistry calculation
 * 14) looking at yellow or bright purple stuff for a long time
 * 15) UFO identification
 * 16) vision acuity over 20/400
 * 17) Human - 23 chromosome pairs
 * 18) Biological distinction between Sickness and Contagiousness in Contagious diseases.
 * 19) If "Big bang" is accurate...

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 4


 * 1) Spiritual Science. Rectifying Hypotheses
 * 2) Name reactions in Chinese Wikipedia
 * 3) universities
 * 4) Was the discovery of evolution "inevitable" in the 19th Century? Why
 * 5) self-ionisation of glacial acetic acid
 * 6) Current and time threshold
 * 7) reactivity esters v. carboxylic acids
 * 8) fetus/mother sharing
 * 9) Antabus
 * 10) Opting out of evolution in biology classes
 * 11) Bears can play hockey?
 * 12) Harmful beryllium oxide in ceramic insolators

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 5


 * 1) A sculptor who works in dark matter
 * 2) What cognitive changes take place at birth?
 * 3) Maximum rate of a energy delivered for a given voltage
 * 4) Flame tests
 * 5) What is the capacitance of a black hole?
 * 6) cosmatics
 * 7) Insolation
 * 8) Properties of alcohols
 * 9) Uncompressed image file formats other than .bmp files
 * 10) Sticking finger
 * 11) Solitude drove the old hermit crab insane.
 * 12) 'Diesel' engine
 * 13) Drosophila melanogaster and human genome homology
 * 14) Hydrogen orbital average radius in terms of energy level.

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 6


 * 1) Al
 * 2) progenitor cells
 * 3) Stability of slopes
 * 4) Evolution of the hinged fang?
 * 5) Difference between airport and aerodrome
 * 6) strength of a C-C bond
 * 7) Camphire in singapore
 * 8) sulfuryl chloride: how does it replace a C-OH bond with a C-Cl bond?
 * 9)  decay
 * 10) Fluid mechanics
 * 11) GRAVITATIONAL RED/BLUE SHIFT
 * 12) Infinite differential method
 * 13) Bird bones
 * 14) Emission spectra
 * 15) 5-membered dioxane formation from a sugar
 * 16) Age Re-Perfect Pro-Calcium L'Oréal Paris
 * 17) Buteyko method
 * 18) Killing Viruses
 * 19) effeminacy
 * 20) Floor Stain (help!)
 * 21) calculating the pH of a solution with a polyprotic amino acid

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 7


 * 1) Name that chemical
 * 2) is it possible I received permament eye damage from briefly handling apple's laser mouse at an Apple store.
 * 3) Taxonomy
 * 4) Is lightning a spark?
 * 5) Torch lights
 * 6) Why do my glasses have a shadow?
 * 7) Batteries in plastic bags
 * 8) I took these photos of animals for WP, but I'm not sure what they all are =(
 * 9) Rechargeable batteries
 * 10) Luxon theory concerning tardyons
 * 11) why isn't the Wolf-Kishner reduction or the Clemmensen reduction used for meth synthesis?
 * 12) energy vs frequency

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 8


 * 1) Convict Fish
 * 2) Nimh substitute for Nicad?
 * 3) Kinematics Question
 * 4) are quantised values always rational?
 * 5) pharmaceutical questions
 * 6) aminoacyl-tRNA bond
 * 7) Occam's razor + envenomation immunity
 * 8) Two questions: swine flu in rodents, and ladybugs in November
 * 9) Proteus Syndrome or Brittle Bone disease
 * 10) Can alpha-carbon protons (in a carbonyl/ketone) hydrogen bond?
 * 11) Calculated Error query

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 9


 * 1) Topical decongestant
 * 2) Gay-Lussac's law and Degrees of Freedom in Calculating the Final Temperature of a Gas Undergoing Adiabatic Compression
 * 3) how do I turn a chloramine back into an amine
 * 4) cyanide...
 * 5) Source of Neutron star magnetic field
 * 6) Evolution
 * 7) Quotes from an Inventor
 * 8) Girls to stop growing
 * 9) magnetics question
 * 10) sterics of proteins and interactions between R groups
 * 11) What arthropod is this?

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 10


 * 1) Urinary tract infections messing with the mind
 * 2) Port transportation and inventory cost with lead time consideration
 * 3) Blood Donation and Alcohol Consumption
 * 4) Help identifying a bird
 * 5) Energy stores after exercise
 * 6) (Biology) Attraction to super-natural features?
 * 7) Dissociation
 * 8) Mis-information about the "Great Pyramid"
 * 9) Organ donation system in the US
 * 10) blood type
 * 11) SPC wants you
 * 12) Science and Technology?
 * 13) Rhesus antigens other than D

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 11


 * 1) Shipping a private vehicle from the US to China
 * 2) exercising in smog
 * 3) Electromagnetic Fields
 * 4) Honey sugar
 * 5) Speed of gravitons in a black hole?
 * 6) heptane, 3-methylene-
 * 7) Iron ore question
 * 8) Do crocodiles care for their young? (Schnappi)
 * 9) Diet of crocodile hatchlings (also Schnappi related)

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 12


 * 1) Distance
 * 2) Laser apperance
 * 3) A-A bonds are weaker than A-B bonds, which are in turn weaker than B-B bonds
 * 4) why are eutectic isotherms, well, isoterms?
 * 5) Hollow core conccrete slabs
 * 6) Social memory
 * 7) Height of a bed
 * 8) Emission spectra (II)
 * 9) question on strength
 * 10) Farsightness
 * 11) Color vision
 * 12) Does anyone know which materials are used for shielding against infrasound and ultrasound?
 * 13) How do we program ourselves?

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 13


 * 1) Hollow pipe stronger than solid bar
 * 2) metals and stones
 * 3) chicken and the egg
 * 4) Deaths caused by malaria?
 * 5) Is this a springtail?
 * 6) p+ and p- mitochondrial genomes
 * 7) LHC
 * 8) Leukemia transfusions
 * 9) Picture of ferrofluid in oil
 * 10) Polyploidy in humans
 * 11) Sense of impending doom
 * 12) EMP
 * 13) multiple ccd chips or cameras
 * 14) has the lhc collided the particles yet
 * 15) Looking for Raccoon Penis
 * 16) Possible signs of global warming, or just common phenomena?
 * 17) definition of 'oxychemical'
 * 18) is anything reproduceable not part of science?
 * 19) What type of soda?
 * 20) Two girls, one baby (or two guys, one baby) - artificially fertilising an ovum using two ova nuclei or to sperm nuclei
 * 21) What would happen...

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 14


 * 1) Blood Type Compatibility
 * 2) Schrödinger's cat - can you actually stop observing it?
 * 3) origin of a cyclone
 * 4) Ferrofluid buoyancy?
 * 5) Hanging
 * 6) bipolar disorder
 * 7) homeostasis during illness
 * 8) LHC beam dump
 * 9) Rising longevity and the remaining number of years of expected survival

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 15


 * 1) Lucid dreaming
 * 2) Hunger
 * 3) Phone and Paper Shredder
 * 4) cancer
 * 5) Evolutionary advanage of nervousness?
 * 6) How long will lunar water last?
 * 7) Copepod parasite?
 * 8) How do paramedics repair severed arteries?
 * 9) Psychology
 * 10) Queen Ant
 * 11) bipolar disorder
 * 12) Feeling in eyes.
 * 13) Looking for the name of a knot similar to the clove hitch
 * 14) activity vs sleep on mountains
 * 15) self-serve check-outs and phone answering systems
 * 16) Rechargeable battery
 * 17) Human Scent
 * 18) a purely conceptual thought experiment
 * 19) Type 1 Diabeetes - Sugar allowed in a can of drink
 * 20) Toxicity of hydrogen peroxide
 * 21) Heteroaromatic Chemistry Problem
 * 22) discoloration in schitzu's hair

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 16


 * 1) Centrifugal force
 * 2) Stone artifact need help with what it is...
 * 3) tuned circuit
 * 4) Tsar Cannon with two ton cannonballs?
 * 5) String theory and GUTs
 * 6) Recreating extinct species
 * 7) Re-expanding a shrunk cotton shirt
 * 8) Flying Machine
 * 9) not exactly dreaming?
 * 10) mathematcal model of PMSM/AC servo motor
 * 11) anembryonic gestation
 * 12) Special Relativity
 * 13) Recycling
 * 14) Do arrows have "lift"?
 * 15) Dreaming
 * 16) microwave cooker question
 * 17) How could an infinite universe expand?
 * 18) Why isn't more money spent on SETI?

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 17


 * 1) Name of process in which complex material things appear from nowhere?
 * 2) Why is urea planar?
 * 3) What is a scientific body of national or international standing?
 * 4) Further digital television enquiry
 * 5) The Mystery of Almond Milk
 * 6) species diversity
 * 7) Scar removal?
 * 8) Flying birds that are very weak in the air
 * 9) Elevator stuck
 * 10) What's the strongest acid and the strongest base?
 * 11) Expansion of the universe
 * 12) fermentation   - what's the correct term for this?
 * 13) snowboard jump equation/formula

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 18


 * 1) Fluoroantimonic acid
 * 2) Need derivations of the solar insolation inside earths atmosphere and latitude at any point
 * 3) Dog Whisperer
 * 4) what canadian animal stores apples in the fork of branches ?
 * 5) Knife against bone / nails on a chalkboard
 * 6) Directed graph condensation terminology
 * 7) Accuracy of Sonar?
 * 8) 8 or 9 abreast seating in Airbus A300 & A330 airliners.
 * 9) Why do you feel more tired after a few hours sleep than when you went to bed?
 * 10) health care
 * 11) Small passive solar water heater
 * 12) Aluminum borohydride
 * 13) Evolution of separate sexes
 * 14) ATSC standards
 * 15) Vacuum-Forming PMMA (Acrylic)
 * 16) Do you expend more energy with intense exertion over a smaller exertion for a longer period of time?

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 19


 * 1) Photo-electric cells for the home?
 * 2) Definition of “taxon”
 * 3) Nut
 * 4) Least Densest Fabric
 * 5) Looking for a particular female scientist.
 * 6) Boating the Amazon River
 * 7) smoke stream

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 20


 * 1) Temperature's Affect on Metabolic Activity
 * 2) Technical question about movie cameras used in traditional filmmaking
 * 3) Static electricity
 * 4) Lunar water
 * 5) Unit conversion
 * 6) biotechnology - monoclonal antibody
 * 7) aluminium chloride colorimetry
 * 8) Fevers and Calories
 * 9) Creationist evolution
 * 10) The Universe
 * 11) Can anyone identify this plant?
 * 12) Signs of global warming?
 * 13) Are plants able to use Creatine to produce ATP?

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 21


 * 1) Yet another "identify this bug" question for the entomologists out there
 * 2) CAN matter be split into any arbitrarily small quantity?
 * 3) Solar fuel generating and storage supertanker
 * 4) CFC Project Help
 * 5) Wow! signal distance
 * 6) Chemistry: M.P Test
 * 7) Some transistors not used in an FPGA?

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 22


 * 1) Meissner Effect
 * 2) looking for full moons
 * 3) Relativity of simultaneity help in the following case
 * 4) Question about gull behaviour (could apply to any reasonably intelligent animal, really)

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 23


 * 1) Is there a dry lips gene?
 * 2) acidity of dimedone, barbituric acid and acetylacetone
 * 3) How does dietary fiber affect absorption of nutrients/pharmacueticals
 * 4) North Africa from the sky
 * 5) Matter
 * 6) which is the acidic amide in uric acid?
 * 7) muscle metabolism
 * 8) How to flatten the pages of damp books?
 * 9) Brightest stars in the sky?
 * 10) Terrestrial Leeches - Are they harmful to pets?
 * 11) Appearance of the moon 2 million years ago
 * 12) Edman degradation help!
 * 13) acetic anhydride isn't symmetrical?

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 24


 * 1) Why are carbon atoms in carbon nanotubes bonded to only 3 other atoms?
 * 2) Blood glucose levels and exercise
 * 3) cancer
 * 4) Diving support vessel
 * 5) Human Anatomy
 * 6) mind altering drugs
 * 7) rise in temperature
 * 8) Flat-nose feature of the actor in Twilight
 * 9) beetleguese supernova
 * 10) Eye color changing mammal
 * 11) Max. temperature
 * 12) Shape of a black hole
 * 13) How does the Transit of Venus allow calculation of the distance from the earth to the sun?
 * 14) Speed Of Light

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 25


 * 1) Monstrous shape-shifting owl
 * 2) Early Hominina finding in Americas
 * 3) Hood Canal "tide computer"
 * 4) Type of truss bridge
 * 5) Dehumidifiers and climate change control
 * 6) do blue tulips occur in nature?
 * 7) North Sea gas
 * 8) overies
 * 9) Balancing chemical equations
 * 10) How does an increased heart-rate stimulate the body's metabolism?
 * 11) Freezing contents of deeply chilled liquid.
 * 12) Finding power factor
 * 13) Ionic food preserver

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 26


 * 1) age of atoms
 * 2) Both analog and digital possible?
 * 3) Sun looks different in size
 * 4) How big can a Thanksgiving turkey be?
 * 5) hoax? Bulgarian scientist claims alien contact
 * 6) How does the body sense temperature?
 * 7) harmful aspiration

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 27


 * 1) Does blood really thicken in cold weather?
 * 2) quantum mechanis
 * 3) theoretical chemistry
 * 4) which are the compounds in which boron has -3 oxidation state?
 * 5) Deep sea fish: do we know how the buggers cope with the insane pressures?
 * 6) is it hard to make vacuums?
 * 7) Moon Landing
 * 8) quantum mechanics
 * 9) statistical testing for a feeling of being watched
 * 10) hydride donors and nitrogen
 * 11) Seagull ID needed

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 28


 * 1) Time dilation and multiplayer games
 * 2) Betelgeuse
 * 3) Military Equipment
 * 4) Isomorph only in Developmental Biology?
 * 5) Are there people with two anuses?
 * 6) How exactly would FTL violate causality?
 * 7) Optimum positioning of bookshelf brackets?
 * 8) Disease question

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 29


 * 1) Solutes
 * 2) Coffee problem
 * 3) Cope elimination
 * 4) Molecular structure
 * 5) Earth's season
 * 6) Evaporating water
 * 7) How do I prevent wrinkles around my eyes
 * 8) What happens after a Pulmonary embolism?
 * 9) Citing this CDC webpage
 * 10) hydride donation to amides
 * 11) Recognising, just with a glance, that a squeleton is the one of an americain
 * 12) The speed of the reaction Ca(OH)2+CO2

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 November 30


 * 1) Do microwaves disrupt Wi-Fi signals?
 * 2) Artificial black hole
 * 3) Question
 * 4) Di-t-boc
 * 5) 1,3 carbon overlap in carbon backbones
 * 6) Map of the Moon
 * 7) Blooming of flowers.
 * 8) Antidepressants losing effectiveness over a decade.
 * 9) Looking for planets visibility
 * 10) Ray-tracing for sound not light
 * 11) premolut n